gold-finch. 
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ment m a cage; for, if they have continued 
there a good while, they like it fo well, tnav 
though you let them loofe, they will not fly 
away; but, when icared, fly direftly to their 
caoe for fhelter. 
'jt'hey are called in fome places 13) aw- aaiers, 
from their aptnefs to learn to draw their water 
when they want to drink, in a little ivory bucket, 
fattened to a fmall chain, made for that pur- 
pofe : it is a pretty light to fee with what dex- 
terity theie little creatures will pud up then 
bucket, drink, and throw it down again ; and. 
hft up the lid of a fmall box or bin, with their 
bill, to come at their meat, &c. Ihey are 
wonderfully delighted with viewing themfelves 
in a glafs, fixed to the back of their bucket- 
board, where they will fit upon their perch, 
pruning and drefling themfelves with the great- 
eft care imaginable, often looking in the glafs, 
and placing every feather in the niceft order : 
no lady can take greater pleafure, or be more 
nice in drefling herfelf, than this little beautiful 
bird is in rectifying all diforders in his plume, 
not fullering a feather to lay amifs. 
The Gold-Finch is a long-lived bird, that 
will fometimes reach to the age of twenty years; 
Mr Willoughby makes mention of one that- 
lived twenty-three years. They are birds that 
fly in flocks, or companies ; and when at liber- 
al 2. 
